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The former Newark mayor, Kenneth A. Gibson, pleaded guilty today to a single charge of federal income tax evasion as part of an agreement that spared him a jail sentence and a retrial on fraud and bribery charges. The plea in United States...

The retrial of former Mayor Kenneth A. Gibson on federal fraud and bribery charges was abruptly adjourned yesterday for two weeks. Lawyers for Mr. Gibson and his two co-defendants as well as prosecutors from the United States attorney's office would...

October 3, 2002, Thursday

Anyone who thinks the days of the old-style political machines are gone has not been following the mayor's race here pitting Cory Booker, a 32-year-old Yale-educated city councilman, against Mayor Sharpe James, the savvy power broker who has presided...

April 9, 2002, Tuesday

Federal Judge William Bassler, who presided over the trial of former Newark mayor Kenneth A. Gibson, which eneded with a hung jury, said last week that a new trial would be set for early October. Federal prosecutors had said that they planned to...

Federal prosecutors are seeking to retry Kenneth A. Gibson, the former Newark mayor, and two co-defendants on bribery and fraud charges after an eight-week trial here ended Wednesday with a deadlocked jury. A spokesman for Robert J. Cleary, the...

A judge declared a mistrial today in the federal bribery and fraud trial of Kenneth Gibson, the former Newark mayor, after jurors who had deliberated for nearly seven days indicated that they were unable to agree on a verdict on any part of the...

The federal jury considering bribery and fraud charges against Kenneth A. Gibson, the former mayor of Newark, said it was deadlocked yesterday after six days of deliberations. The trial judge urged them to try again. In a departure from the standard...

The former Irvington school board member who is the prosecution's key witness in the federal bribery and fraud trial of a former Newark mayor, Kenneth A. Gibson, testified today that Mr. Gibson had paid him $13,000 in connection with a $50 million...

The trial of former Newark Mayor Kenneth Gibson and two associates, who are charged with defrauding the Irvington Board of Education of more than $1 million in connection with the construction of a middle school and renovations on two other Irvington...